Babies… Auntie needs to sit down a minute. My heart is cracked clean open today. Jamie Raskin did a surprise inspection at one of those ICEstapo detention centers — and what he walked into? Filth. Neglect. Human beings warehoused like they’re an inconvenience instead of people with families and futures. And the section supposedly reserved for “dangerous offenders” was empty. Empty. So who exactly is suffering in those conditions? You already know.
Auntie saw the photos and felt that familiar punch to the chest. The kind that makes you whisper “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph” before the rage even catches up.
But then — oh, my loves — then I made the mistake of looking at the comments under Raskin’s post.
And I swear on every Dunkin’ in New England, I almost threw my phone into the nearest snowbank.
There they were:
MAGAts posting grainy little photos of some J6 guy in a cramped cell, screaming about solitary confinement, screaming about Obama-era abuses, screaming about anything except the actual human beings suffering right now.
And listen to Auntie carefully:
For the sake of argument?
Let’s say that J6 guy was mistreated.
Let’s say Obama-era detainees were mistreated.
Let’s say every single one of those photos is real and accurate and unedited.
You know what the correct response is?
NO.
THIS IS WRONG.
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK.
Not:
“See, look what they did to him, so who cares about these people.”
Not:
“Fuck the illegals, what about my guy.”
Not:
“Both sides do it so shut up.”
No. Absolutely not.
Auntie rejects that with her whole chest.
Because cruelty doesn’t become acceptable just because you found an example of it happening to someone you like.
Because human rights don’t work on a punch-card system.
Because suffering is not a competition.
Because if your instinct when you see abuse is to say “GOOD, DO IT TO THEM TOO,” then sweetheart, you’ve already lost the plot and your soul is circling the drain.
Auntie’s voice is shaking right now — not from rage, but from grief.
Grief that we’ve got people in this country who look at a human being in a cage and think the correct response is to argue about who deserved it more.
My loves, listen to me:
If you need someone to be dehumanized before you care, that’s not politics — that’s rot.
And Auntie will not let rot take root in her house.
So here’s what we hold onto:
• Wrong is wrong. No matter who it happens to.
• Abuse is abuse. No matter who’s in the cell.
• Dignity is dignity. No matter what passport someone does or doesn’t have.
• We do not barter with cruelty. Not today, not ever.
Auntie’s not here to litigate which administration did what or which mugshot deserves sympathy.
Auntie’s here to remind you that our moral compass does not swing based on party, tribe, or comment-section propaganda.
If someone was tortured?
Wrong.
If someone was held in solitary for months?
Wrong.
If someone is sleeping on a concrete floor in a freezing cell right now?
Wrong.
The answer is always:
NO.
THIS IS WRONG.
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK.
STOP IT.
FIX IT.
DO BETTER.
And if that makes some people uncomfortable?
Good.
Maybe discomfort will do what decency hasn’t.
Come here, babies.
Auntie’s got you.
We stay human in a world that keeps trying to teach us not to be.
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